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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

Edsurge

And in this environment, the education industry sees an unprecedented transformation due in part to a new industrial revolution. During the past decade, we have seen only the beginning of changes in the education industry. All of this creates an industry ripe for further disruption on a global scale.

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Students Face a Troubling Skills Gap Around Career Readiness. We’re Fixing It With Data.

Edsurge

The goal as we see it is something we call “60x30TX,” or 60 percent of Texas adults ages 25-34 will hold a degree by 2030. What's more, our implementation of Ed-Fi allows us to securely manage our student data according to modern industry best practices. The first year of piloting this program was a huge group effort.

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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

Edsurge

And major companies and industry groups are increasingly getting into the credentialing game, exemplified by firms such as IBM and Google. Innovations such as stackable non-degree credentials as an on-ramp and low-cost MOOC-based degrees from top universities are likely to only grow access to post-baccalaureate education.

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As enrollment falls and colleges close, a surprising number of new ones are opening

The Hechinger Report

Demand for workers in solar is expected to nearly double by 2030, according to an industry census. The number of workers needed in the offshore wind energy industry will also nearly double, by 2025 , to 589,000, and increase to 868,000 by 2030, the consulting firm Rystad Energy estimates.

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Impatient for workers, businesses help students take college shortcuts

The Hechinger Report

This week, they’re building basic apps and games using Firebase, a Google platform. Samaniego created the website Blue Agua as a class project to raise money for access to water for people who don’t have it. In some cases, the classes have already changed the students’ job plans. “I Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. Although we were convinced that technology could transform education, simple internet access was patchy at best.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. The quotation is from 2012. So it is predicted. So it is written.

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